Word: mailer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...When John Kennedy was [long pause, eyes lowered] taken from us, Norman Mailer wrote something that I have never forgotten and that went something like this [voice hushed]: Tor a while the country was ours. [Pause.] Now they've taken it away from us.' [Long pause, voice very low.] With your help, I want to take it back again...
Leonard Michaels's task is not so difficult. Writing for a minute market--liberal intellectuals, largely Eastern--he can begin each of his perhaps fifty stories with a literary world presupposed. Marx, Freud, Byron, a Jewish boyhood (familiar to gentile literati from reading Mailer and Roth), and the inertia of the 1950s all loom in the book's background, the author only has to select which allusions to use for each story's point of departure...
...wholly legal, political and charitable groups. The IRS between 1969 and 1973 had also fulfilled an FBI request to check the taxes of some 8,000 American citizens and 3,000 organizations, including Columnist Joseph Alsop, then New York Mayor John Lindsay, Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., Author Norman Mailer, B'nai B'rith, Associated Catholic Charities, Americans for Democratic Action, the John Birch Society, Common Cause, the New York Review...
...Since Manson's trial and imprisonment, a Manson cult of sorts has sprung up, making instant myth of his life of violence. A play by David Rabe, The Orphan, tried, with notable lack of success, to portray Manson as misunderstood victim, oracle and messiah. Author Norman Mailer, although acknowledging that brave people can have destructive qualities, has said of Manson: "As an intellectual, he was brave...
That was before Muhammad Ali, another one of those brightly illustrated, all-star productions by Publisher Laurence Schiller, who previously arranged the controversial match between Norman Mailer and Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn...